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Shuwaikh Power and Desalination

MSF/RO + power, 20.5 MIGD (92,000 m3/day) of distillation, plus a 30 MIGD (136,000 m3/day) seawater reverse osmosis plant in Kuwait.

Operational

The record

Country
Kuwait
Location
Kuwait City
Coordinates
29.351, 47.940
Technology
MSF/RO + power
Capacity
20.5 MIGD (92,000 m3/day) of distillation, plus a 30 MIGD (136,000 m3/day) seawater reverse osmosis plant
Capital cost
—
Stage
Operational
Owner or client
Ministry of Electricity, Water and Renewable Energy
Contractor
Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction (seawater RO plant, EPC)
Operator
—
Finance
—
Award or start year
2008
Commissioned
—

Record last checked 2026-09-18.

History

Sources

9 references

Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.

  1. Energy Recovery Inc press release filed with the SEC, Shuwaikh 36 MGD desalination plant awarded to Doosan (2008). ir.energyrecovery.com.
  2. 136,000 m3/day (36 million US gallons a day), MEW the client, Doosan on an EPC basis, completion scheduled September 2010, described as Kuwait's first large seawater reverse osmosis plant.
  3. Alfadhli and Alhashemi, Environmental Impact of Desalination Plant Saline Water on Kuwait Bay, Journal of Engineering Research and Application 9 (2), 2019. ijera.com.
  4. Table 1, citing MEW 2006, lists the installed distillation plants in MIGD and million m3/day.
  5. Frontiers in Environmental Science, A detailed perspective of water resource management in a dry and water scarce country: the case in Kuwait (2022). frontiersin.org.
  6. Table 2 gives eight coastal desalination plants with year, technology and capacity in m3/day.
  7. Frontiers dates the Shuwaikh site to 1982 and gives 220,000 m3/day for distillation and reverse osmosis combined, which matches the two figures added together.
  8. Oxford Business Group, Kuwait 2018 report, The government is working to improve water infrastructure and production capacity. oxfordbusinessgroup.com.
  9. MENA Water Review major projects register and PPP pipeline — compiled from procurer publications, development-bank project pages and trade reporting; each record names its source.

Az Zour South and Shuwaikh RO plants at 30 MIGD each; two 60 MIGD RO plants at Doha.